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Denison House

The College Settlement in Boston

ANNUAL REPORT

for the year ending October 1, 1916

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Denison House

The College Settlement in Boston

ANNUAL REPORT

for the year ending October 1, 1916

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. Board of Directors, 1916-17

II. Residents

III. College Settlements Association Officers

IV. Chronology :

December, 1892-October, 1916

V. Report of the Headworker .

The New Expansion ....
Some Immigrant Problems

Americanization

Nursing and Neighborhood Hygiene
Children's Department ....

Boys' Department

The Students' Club

Stamp Savings

Music Department

Dramatics

if Italian Department

Summer Work in Town ....
At Camp

VI. Report of the Folk Handicrafts .
VII. Treasurer's Report

VIII. List of Contributors

IX. Non-Resident Workers ....

X. AcknoVledgm^ents

BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF DENISON HOUSE

Executive Committee

Miss Bertha Scripture, Chainnan

Lincoln, Mass

Miss Mary H. Dana, Secretary

41 Allerton Street, Brookline

Mr. D. Blakely Hoar, Treasurer .

. 161 Devonshire Street

Mrs. John K. Burgess .

32 Lime Street

Miss Helena S. Dudley .

93 Tyler Street

Miss Geraldine Gordon

. V)3 Tyler Street

Mrs. Kate Stearns Page

31 Pleasant Street, Brookline

Other Directors

Miss iSlizaDetn Baicn

Prince Street, Jamaica Plain

Mr. Robert J. Bottomly

oiu rsarristers xiaii

Miss Helen Cheever

557 Boylston Street

Miss Miicii ea uiarK

80 Claremont Street, Newton

jxLlSS Mauei \jr. UUltlS

40a Trowbridge Street, Cambridge

Miss Ellen T. JKmerson

Concord, Mass.

Mrs. Joel K. Goldthwait

1 Charles River Square

Mr. Richard W. Hale .

. 16 Central Street

Miss Mary S. Holbrook

382 Commonwealth Avenue

Mi«ss Caroline L. Humphrey

Drabbington Lodge, Kendall Green

Miss Euphemia Mackintosh

. Cedar Hill, Waltham

Miss Ella Mason

TheTuileries

Miss Emily S. Reed

352 Beacon Street

Mrs. Robert W. Say 1 as .

Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill

Miss Vida D. Scudder .

. Wellesley, Mass.

Miss Margaret Slade

Hammond Street, Chestnut Hill

Mrs. Lucius H. Thayer

Portsmouth, N. H.

Mrs. George T. Tuttle .

Waverley, Mass.

Mrs. William H. Walker

226 Bay State Road

Miss Cornelia Warren .

. Cedar Hill, Waltham

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STANDING COnniTTEES

Miss Cheever
Miss Curtis
Miss Gordon
Mr. Hoar
Miss Humphrey

Ways and Means Committee

Miss Reed
Mrs. Sayles

Miss Scripture, Ex officio
Miss Warren, Chairman

Mrs. Burke
Miss Mackintosh, Chairman

House Committee

Miss Scripture, Ex officio

Mrs. Walker

Nursing Committee

Miss Clark Miss Railey

Miss Holbrook, Chairman Miss Revere

Miss Mason Miss Scripture, Ex officio

Miss A. Nickers'on

Folk Handicrafts Council

Miss Florence A. Chase, Executive

Mrs. Goldthwait, Chairman

Miss Emma Calhoun, Secretary

Mrs. Walter Chrimes

Mrs. Emma Drago

Miss Gordon

Miss Dorothy Miner

Miss Adelaide Pearson
Miss Marie Ramseyer
Miss Scripture, Ex officio
Miss Slade

Mrs. Joseph J. Tillinghast
Mrs. Tuttle

Italian Council

Miss Eleanor Baker
Miss Balch
Miss Chase

Mrs. Livingston Davis, Chairman
Mrs. Drago

Miss Marguerite Fiske
Miss Gordon
Mr. Malgeri

Miss Pearson

Mrs. Pelligrini

Miss Ellen Rollins

Miss Scripture, Ex officio

Miss Scudder

Miss Helen Swords

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OFFICERS

OF THE

COLLEGE SETTLEMENTS ASSOCIATION

WITH WHICH

DENISON HOUSE IS AFFILIATED

STANDING COMMITTEE

President

Miss ELLEN T. EMERSON
Lowell Road, Concord, Mass.

Vice-Pkksident

Mes. ROBERT C. CLOTHIER
Haverford, Pa.

Treasurer

Mrs. GEORGE MACAN, Jr.
202 Taylor Ave.. Easlon, Pa.

Secretary

Miss ELEANOR M. DOTY
667 West 113th St.
New York City

Editor

Mrs. HORACE T. FLEISHER
6418 North Camac St.
Philadelphia, Pa.

Organizing Secretary

Miss DOROTHY BALDWIN
95 Rivington St., New York City

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CHRONOLOGY

1892. The house at 93 Tyler Street leased; called

Denison House.
Five residents planned for; no head worker
chosen.

1893. Miss Helena Dudley chosen headworker; seven

residents.

Connection established with Associated Chari-
ties, Country Week work, and local agencies.
Clubs organized.

Loan library and Penny Provident Bank estab-
lished.

Acquaintance formed with Trade Union leaders.
Resident assists in Tyler Street Vacation School.
Expenses met by Associated Charities.

1894. Adult educational work introduced.
Formation of residents' Social Science Club.
Connection with the Citizens' Relief Committee

for the unemployed.
First of the free art exhibitions.

1895. Headworker delegated to the Central Labor

Union.

Tyler Street Vacation School carried on by

Denison House.
Beginning of free Sunday afternoon concerts.
Settlement conferences held once a month.

1896. Loan library given up; books transferred to

branch of the Public Library.
Investigation of the sanitary condition of public
schools.

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House enlarged by the addition of No. 91 Tyler
Street.

Public School Kindergarten held in Denison
House.

1897. Headworker interested in formation of Con-

sumers' League.
Number of residents, fifteen.
Women Clerks Benefit Organization flourishing.
Stamp Savings extended to homes.

1898. Eeading room at No. 95 Tyler Street obtained

through help of the Denison House Dramatic
Club.

Organization of Teachers' Club for better co-
operation between school and settlement.

House-to-house investigation of the neighbor-
hood in connection with the 20th Century
Club.

1899. Loan art collection founded.

Director of boys' club added to working staff.

1900. Gymnasium obtained through the generosity of

Miss E. G. Houghton.
Effort to establish a playground.
Active work in connection with Public School

Association.

1901. Stamp Savings carried into factories.
Gymnasium leased to Boston.
Resident nurse added to staff.

1902. Resident teacher of Domestic Science added to

staff.

Extra floor at No. 95 Tyler Street secured for
boys' clubs.

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1903. Increased co-operation among Boston Settle-
ments.

All of No. 95 Tyler Street secured for clubs.

1904. Formation of Italian Club for adults.
Station opened for the sale of modified milk.
Stamp Savings extended to department stores

and offices.

Union Label League work aided by Denison
House.

Study Class for Social Workers formed.
Boys' camp at Lake Sebago, Maine.

1905. Purchase of third building for Denison House

use.

1906. Opening of a co-operative house, The Hemen-

way, on Tyler Street, by Denison House
friends.

Summer cottage at Winthrop, Mass., for v^ork-
ing girls.

Highest award in Food Exhibit at Industrial
Union given to Denispn House Cooking
School.

Sunday afternoon lectures for Circolo-Italo
Americano started at North Bennet Street
Industrial School.

1907. Formation of class in lacemaking for Italian

children.

Organization of club for Syrian women.
Public School class for defective children held

at Denison House.
Beginning of Santa Lucia, the Italian women's

club.

1908. Evening clinic started for working people.

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1909. Boys' camp again provided for.
Exhibition of Italian Arts and Crafts.
Formation of Denison House Association of

Outside Workers.

1910. Campaign for building fund.
Publication of the Neighborhood News.
Organization of the " Gemaat Surea Ameri-

canea," the Syrian social and educational
club.

1911. New house opened at No. 89 Tyler Street, making

four houses in all.

1912. Dramatics under charge of a director.
Kesignation of Miss Dudley as headworker,

and Miss Mackintosh as assistant.
Appointment of Miss Gordon as acting head-
worker, and Miss Guillet as assistant.

1913. Denison House incorporated.
Miss Gordon made headworker.

Music Department under charge of a director.

1914. Gymnasium property sold. Housekeeping flat

opened at 97 Tyler Street.

1916. Remodelled 95 and 97 Tyler Street for residents'
houses, turning 93, 91 and 89 over to settle-
ment uses exclusively.

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Business Churches Va^ Saloons

X DENI80N HOUSE B CHINESE RESTAURANTS E THEATRES AND MoVING PiCTURE ShOWS.

REPORT OF THE HEADWORKER

The annual report of last year ended with a para-
graph in which the long deferred hope of a new building
for Denison House was relinquished. Divers good
reasons for this decision were put forward, reasons
which aimed chiefly to lessen the pangs of defeat due
to the abandonment of a cherished plan. We have
decided," we wrote firmly, ^'to continue only such
work as can be carried on under our present physical
limitations, and to hold our Extension Fund until the
time arrives for us to transplant our settlement to
another neighborhood in need of our work."

This decision implied the abandonment of No. 97 Tyler
Street, which had been rented to tenants, except for
the flat on the second floor, where homemaking lessons
and music went forward under trying conditions. The
house was so badly out of repair that plumbing, leaks
of various sorts, lack of heating facilities, not to
mention the ancient smells of generations of lodgers,
made it a constant source of trouble. Finally it was
condemned as unsafe. Music was moved to the boys'
house, the homemaking flat was given up, the tenants
moved out, and the property was offered for sale. It
had cost us $7,500, but the one offer we received was
for half that sum. So all last winter we committed
the social crime of allowing our house to stand idle in
a congested neighborhood, and added to the sum total
of ugliness in the district by great beams that kept
the front from falling into the street.

Meanwhile our efforts to settle down to
The New the definite task of building up and in-
Expansion tensifying the work already in hand," to
quote the closing words of the last report,
resulted in disturbing growth all along the line. The
music overflowed into the bedroom of one of the men

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residents, who frequently found violin lessons going
forward when it was time to dress for dinner. The
girls' clubs begged for rooms of their own, where
Camp Fire insignia, camp photographs, etc., might be
displayed undisturbed. The sewing machine clamored
for a more domestic environment than was possible in
the clinic rooms. Folk Handicrafts added so many
shelves, cases, tables, desks, chairs, suit cases and
trunks to its necessary equipment, in its one large
room, that we trembled sometimes lest the floor give
way. Linens, by the case; we stored in the barn of one
of our directors, miles away from the scene of action.
Oar kittens were growing into cats, and no amount of
squeezing could keep them in their little baskets. They
had to stretch in order to live. Folk Handicrafts even
played with the idea of finding a house for itself else-
where. And there, all the time, stood our empty,
tumbled-down No. 97, too rickety to stand the removal
of partitions, but surely good for something, if only
repairs could be made.

In June, the idea of utilizing this house and the one
next to it. No. 95, for residence houses, occurred to us.
Such a plan involved a complete overturning of the
present plant. It meant the separation of the living
arrangements of the residents from the organized
activities of the settlement, a plan which has many
arguments in its favor. It offered the occasion, also,
for the installation of a central heating system for our
five houses; it increased the number of residence rooms
from fourteen to seventeen, with a guest room for men
as well as for women; it offered more bath and toilet
rooms; it also met the demand for more space for club
rooms, music, and Folk Handicrafts.

The plan was presented to the directors, at their
meeting late in June, and was adopted, provided a
sum of $7,600 could be raised by August 1, to augment

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the Extension Fund and insure against a deficit for the
current year.

In spite of the unpropitious time of the year, war
relief for Europe, and funds for the families of militia
men on the border, the friends of Denison House
responded most generously and promptly, and on
August 1 $8,000 was at hand and the business of per-
fecting the plan was begun. The high cost of building
necessitated the amputation of many cherished im-
provements, but the original plan was carried out, and
we begin the New Year in our new quarters.

Our four college settlements have all been
Some face to face for years with the tremendous
Immigrant problems arising in congested districts
Problems given over almost exclusively to immi-
grants. We have known from the inside,
for a long time, what the difficulties are that confront
an alien when he attempts to reconstruct his life here
in our American cities. It is enough to mention only
two of these difficulties, the search for a suitable home
for his family and the quest of a job.

The Goddess of.Liberty, who welcomes the immigrant
so dramatically as he sails into the most beautiful of
harbors, disappears in the shadows that close in upon
him in the unfamiliar city streets. The shining beauty
of the water-front belongs to the America of his
dreams. A dingy, crowded tenement, in a shabby
quarter of the town, forms the actual environment of
his new life.

A friendly visit to Tony's house will almost certainly
reveal a multitude of facts about bad housing. The
settlement worker knows that the immigrant does not
create these unrighteous housing conditions. He has
to submit to them because it is all his wages can afford.
Moreover, it is an American landlord who accepts tent

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from Tony for the privilege of living in a rat-trap of a
house. Insensible, indeed, must be the person in whom
is not awakened a new S3^mpathy for the immigrant
family attempting to adjust itself to American stand-
ards under such untoward conditions.

The settlement worker, seeking a job for Tony,
comes into immediate knowlege of a good many in-
dustrial problems. The inadequacy of the employment
bureau to meet the needs of the newcomer, and to
furnish him with advice and information, as well as a
job; the entirely impersonal point of view of the boss,
to whom Tony is just a ''hand," capable of a certain
output; the relation of the pay envelope to the rising
cost of living; the effect of monotonous indoor occu-
pation upon the physique of the Mediterranean peasant;
the effect upon his spiritual outlook of the struggle to
live at all in the slack season; these are some of the
things even a very young and inexperienced settlement
worker learns from the simple kindly effort to find a
job for a neighbor.

Acquaintance with Tony's wife and children opens
up new areas of experience with social problems. The
home, the school, the job, the neighborhood, these are
the background merely for the real drama, — the
struggle of the alien to '' arrive," to become at last an
American citizen, inheritor of our proud traditions,
and sharer in our great national destiny.

The general public knows that the immigrant tide
rises and ebbs according to certain industrial and
economic conditions. Debate in Congress over the
literacy test brings the consideration of undesirables
periodically before the whole nation. The war abroad,
and the war scare at home, have within the last two
years given the hyphenated American a place on the
front page of the newspaper, and furnished material for
campaign literature. Suddenly everyone has become

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acutely conscious of the presence of the immigrant
among us. Everyone is asking whether he is a national
asset or a liability. Everyone is saying frantically that
he is too numerous, too various, that America is suffer-
ing from an excess of hospitality. The truth of the
matter is vigorously stated by Frances Kellor in her
recent book, Straight America * —

*<Whatvre are really suffering from is not undue
expansion but undue contraction, a determined with-
drawal of native Americans from the real situation in
America, a positive refusal to face their destiny, a
stupid neglect to provide anything for the immigrant
but a job."

Unfortunately, citizenship has too
Americanization often been accomplished when a

modicum of language has been
acquired and certain papers made out. Americaniza-
tion is evidently a longer process. It is not achieved
over night.

For many years the Settlements have based their
philosophy of life upon the belief that ideals and
principles are as contagious as measles — but only
when they are shared! It has been this philosophy that
has sent us into the foreign quarters in our cities. We
have known that a worthy conception of citizenship
comes only with the awakening of certain fundamental
principles and certain fine traditions, — a loyalty that
is aroused primarily by association with others who
give allegiance to these same principles and ideals, and
only secondarily by knowledge of the English language,
American history, and civil government.

For this reason the settlement offers the very best
laboratory for the making of new Americans. The
night school can impart the knowledge of language and

*P.86. ,

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civil government required by law, but the settlement,
because it exists chiefly to bring up-town and down-
town together in simple and friendly democratic rela-
tions, can provide those opportunities for human
contacts between the native born and foreign born,
which are fundamentally essential to our national life.

The so-called menace of the ignorant foreign vote
is most certainly our reproach. Let us not lay the
blame at the door of the immigrant to whom has been
denied those privileges of education which are our ,
heritage. The coming enfranchisement of women lays
a responsibility upon us all. ''It means the Ameri-
canization of women. Now women automatically
become citizens with their fathers and husbands,
although in some states they vote. The best Ameri-
canization agency is the home. We can only reach
foreign-born women in their homes, and we must go to
them. They are now isolated, forgotten, ignored, and
constitute the greatest single backward factor in the
progress of citizenship among women."*

We of the settlements have been called social inter-
preters. In these troubled days of doubt and mistrust,
shall we not bring a new consecration to this ancient
task? While we interpret the glory of America to
these newcomers, let us not fail to interpret their
aspirations and endowments to the native born, that
the word Americanization may cease to mean to the
majority of men the impossible task of shaping alien
minds and hearts to the old colonial pattern. Let us
not rob America of some of the best gifts these foreign-
born citizens have to offer her, in our blind efforts to
make them over into something too much like our-
selves!

Meanwhile, we are confronted by the stupendous task
of making over America. We cannot pause until the

* " straight America," p. 189.

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light of the Liberty Statue makes luminous every in-
dustrial center, every immigrant neighborhood; until
a sense of social justice has been aroused that will
include the least of these, our brethren; until we have
really built up a new international good will, reaching
out to include all our brothers over seas.

However petty and inadequate may seem the affairs
of the settlement that occupy us day by day, and make
up the substance of the reports of work that follow,
these high motives underlie each endeavor. In the
experience of club life, at camp, in public health work,
in the upbuilding of friendly social relationships, in the
strivings for more co-operative community activity,
our work has its meaning in the fact that thus we are

doing our bit" to make the America-to-be worthy of
every man's love and loyalty.

The comparative statistics, presented
Neighborhood by Miss Eailey, of the Department of
Hygiene Neighborhood Hygiene and Nursing,

show the steady serviceableness of this
department to the people of the district. Our little
dispensary " is really a medical clearing house, as well
as a center for preventive work. It is our nurse who
fills in the gaps untouched by the specialized nursing
work of other agencies, the Boston Consumptive Hos-
pital, the school nurse, the district nurse, etc. It is
she who connects her patients with relief agencies,
employment bureaus, vacation camps, etc., as they
have need. It is she who discovers ways and means
of providing expensive braces, orthopedic shoes, eye-
glasses, etc. As we have often said before, the settle-
ment nurse must of necessity be a social worker, as well
as a hospital graduate.

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Statistics

Year Ending

October 1, 1915

October 1. 1916

1,850

Patients treated

1,616

decrease,

234

1,151

Attending clinic

1,206

increase.

55

Home visits and interviews

4,066

at Denison House

5,240

increase, 1,174

Referrred to hospitals and

324

dispensaries

261

decrease.

63

Referred to convalescent

36

homes

58

increase,

22

61

Referred to private doctors

116

Increase,

65

80

Referred to other agencies

131

increase,

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We are indebted to the following surgeons and
physicians for their generous co-operation in the work
of this department: To Dr. Roger Lee and Dr. Wyman
Whitteraore, for advice and direction; to Dr. George
Denny, Dr. Francis Rackeman, Dr. A. W. Reggio, Dr.
F. C. Warren, Dr. George Minot, Dr. H. H. Howard,
for active service.

Miss Austin, the nurse in charge of the Baby Hygiene
Association station at Denison House, presents the
following report: —

288 families; 4,5''l visits made to those families.
346 visits made to eligible babies.

210 visits made to babies after discharge, at mother's request.

The visits were made by the nurse and a Denison
House resident, Miss Wallace.

Five nurses from the Instructive District Nursing
Association were given a month's training each in the
Milk Station and in the house by the nurse, Miss
Austin.

Dr. Williston W. Barker continues to serve the
station as conference physician.

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The 288 families represent the followiDg national
and racial groups:^ —

American
Armenian
Albanian
Austrian

Chinese
English
French
Greek

German
Italian
Irish
Polish

Russian Jew
• Syrian Jew

Syrian
Scotch
Swedish

The proportion of families in the various groups is
interesting —

Finding it necessary, in the autumn of
Children's 1915, to reorganize clubs on account of the
Clubs demand. Miss West came to take charge of

the children's work. There were eight
afternoon clubs for girls . Those over ten carried on their
business meetings, using the rules of order. In the
way of handwork, they had plain sewing, simple
dressmaking, knitting, a little basketry, and home-
making, illustrated by dolls. Social dancing, folk
dancing, game stories, excursions to places of interest,
parties and picnics were other activities. The Camp
Fire group, the oldest of the junior clubs, is being
especially trained for leadership. Several of the mem-
bers assisted in the very small children's game after-
noons, and others took an active part in the Girls'
Federation. The Federation was formed to bind the
clubs more closely together, and to give the girls a

American
Others

Syrian
Italian
Greek
Irish

157
60
26
16
10
30

288

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greater community feeling. This organization has its
own officers, and a constitution. The clubs took turns in ,
providing the entertainments for the different meet-
ings, and already quite an advance has been made in
individual and group initiative of the right sort.

The very small children's game club, those between
four and six, became so popular that the regular mem-
bership list was abandoned, and it resolved itself into

first come, first served," no one being admitted after

3.4:5.

The afternoon boys, more than the girls, had suffered
from the lack of organization of the year before. The
youngest group, however, had seventeen very active
members, and kept up a good spirit throughout the
year. The older groups were more fluctuating in their
membership, but a good nucleus was formed for the
beginning of another season.

The Evening Story Hour, held by Mr. and Mrs.
Cronan, had an attendance of 1,942, including girls and
boys, and the same eager interest was shown as in
previous years.

Mr. Brown reports that there were ninety-
Boys' one regularly enrolled members of the
Department Boys' Department. These were organized

into ten clubs. It was necessary to turn
away other groups for lack of room. The purpose of
the clubs is chiefly social. One of the problems of
this department lies in the fact that the boys of our
district are unable, or at least unwilling to continue
the same work for any length of time. Three of the
younger clubs put through short plays, showing real
interest and ability.

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Foot ball and basket ball teams were organized, but
athletic work is much hampered by lack of a gymna-
sium of our own. A cobbling class continued until all
the old shoes of the members and their families had
been mended.

On Sunday afternoons a large unorganized group of
young men, chiefly Irish and Italian, came to the
house for a social hour and to listen to an informal
talk. Among the twelve speakers to whom we are
indebted for their helpful co-operation were noted
foot-ball captains, a member of the Ked Sox team,
college professors, and political leaders. These talks
were but the beginning of what we hope may develop
into a local forum.

Miss Scripture presents the following.
Students^ report for the Denison Students' Club: —
Club The members enjoyed four illustrated

travel talks; four lectures on "Interna-
tional Relations"; a delighful talk on her personal
experiences on the stage by Mrs. John Craig, followed
by a reception. There were three parties, one at
Christmas, one a whist party, and the third, the an-
nual supper, with its usual accompaniment of good
speeches. The club w^ent on four excursions; gave a
sale, at which they made $90. Of this sum they
generously gave $75 to Denison House, using the re-
mainder for Christmas and Easter cheer for old people.
Daring the year three classes were held, in Corrective
Gymnastics, History, and the Elements of Style. The
club sent delegates to the National Federation of Settle-
ments, and to the Convention of the National League
of Women Workers, and, as a group, joined the
Woman's Peace Party.

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It is impossible in the limits of this report to tell of
the interesting work done in the Golden Knot, Guillet
Social, and other evening clubs.

Mrs. Burke makes the following report
Stamp for the Stamp Savings Bank: —
Savings During the past year there have been 145
depositors.

Books have been cashed to the amount of $947.38,
and $1,118.33 worth of stamps have been purchased.
There were 59 depositors in Folk Handicrafts, and 86
in neighborhood and clubs.

Mrs. Page presents the following report: —
Music . The Music Department is a constantly

growing activity of the house. Last year
over 680 individual lessons in piano, violin and voice
were given, an increase of 180 over the year before.
This indicates a desire for music in the immediate
neighborhood, for we send those outside our environs
to the other music schools. We have classes in eu-
rythmics, and in the singing and study of folk songs,
as a basis for further and broader study.

Every six weeks the children give a small music
recital, at which they play to each other informally,
and at the end of the season a larger one, to which the
parents are invited.

We teach the children to appreciate and listen to
good music, for we believe that though all cannot
become skilled players, everybody can learn to love
music, and to respond to the joy and the spiritual
influence which it brings.

The dramatic work of the house suffers
Dramatics constantly from the lack of adequate stage
facilities, rehearsal rooms, property and

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Costume rooms. In spite of handicaps that would
daunt the hearts of amateurs less devoted to their art.
our record for the year, as reported by Mr. Clark, is as
follows: —

The dramatic work begins late in the year, and it is
frequently Christmas time before we see results.
Groups of Syrian boys presented a Nativity play at
several of the Christmas parties, and Ben Jonson's
^'Masque of Christmas " at our Twelfth Night Revels.
After that we were ready to begin our spring plays.
*'Gringoire" and "The Flower of Yeddo," one-act
plays, with a dance pantomime, made up the enter-
tainment which first entered the Intersettlement play
contest, and then was presented at Wellesley and at
Mt. Ida School. Two of our dancers did a ''turn'* at
a benefit performance for one of the other settlements,
and two Syrian young men gave a very thrilling sword
dance at the Intersettlement supper.

In the summer we had a ' ' Pop " concert and vaude-
ville in the yard, and a group of folk plays and folk
dances were given by the younger members of the
dramatic clubs, at Miss Warren's charming out-door
theater, at Cedar Hill, Waltham.

The dramatic clubs have accumulated a fund of
$426.56 toward equipping a stage. May the time soon
come when this fund can be put to active service.

Miss Swords reports a winter full of
Italian activity. Her time was pretty evenly
Department divided between the social work of the
Italian division of Folk Handicrafts, the
Santa Lucia Club, and the many calls for advice and
friendly assistance that come to Denison House, because
it is generally known that we have a deep interest in
the progress and the problems of the Italians in the
city.

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There were almost a hundred Italian workers in the
Folk Handicrafts, and 45 members in the Santa Lucia
Club. In many of these families, unemployment,
housing diffi ulties, sickness, death, and many compli-
cated situations occurred to claim the time, energy and
service of the director of this department. No report
or table of statistics can measure the value of this part
of her work.

The Santa Lucia Club, with an average attendance
of 86, with unlimited youngsters, so filled the room
that applicants for membership in this popular group
had to be placed on the waiting list. The serious work
of the winter resulted from an inspiring meeting, at
which Mrs. Hooper told the club about the relief work
she was undertaking for Italy. Many of the members
in answer to the need of the mother conn try, found
time, in the midst of their busy days, to knit socks
and mufflers for the soldiers.

Just before Christmas a collection was taken for the
Babies' Hospital. At the Christmas parties a group of
Italian children presented, as is their annual custom,
Miss Florence Converse's Masque, ''The Holy Night."

The Circolo Italo Americano continues to meet at
Denison House, and to grow in numbers and in service
to the community. Its very interesting annual report
may be had upon application to the president, Miss
Elizabeth Balch.

The busy summer activities at the Settle-
Summer ment followed their usual course, — par-
Work ties, picnics, excursions, play-yard for
little children, distribution of flowers,
stamp savings, story hour, — besides the Vacation
School, held under our auspices, in the Quincy School.

The camp at Lake Wentworth, New Hampshire, was
again generously offered for our use by Miss Cornelia

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Warren. The first five weeks were given up to the
girls. Thirty of them, under Miss Shaw's able super-
vision, made the great venture of living out of doois, —
an increase of thirteen over the preceding year.
Among them five nationalities were represented, —
Irish, Italian, Syrian, Greek and German.

The income from board (fifty cents a day) exceeded
the cost of raw material by $94.38, which was more
than enough to pay for fuel, light and the services of
the cook. The financial statement is as follows: —

Transportation $208 68

Food 179 62

Equipment 68 14

Service , . ' 61 00

Doctor and medicines 4 68

Laundry 16 47

Sundries . ' 19 42

$646 81

Total Receipts . ; 224 99

Cost of the girls' camp to Denison House .... 321 82

The boys and their leaders took possession on the
twenty-ninth of July. Fifty-six different boys were
entertained at the camp during the six weeks that fol-
lowed. The proportion of Irish to Syrian boys was at
the rate of 3 to 2, just the reverse of the winter ratio.

Three new rowboats were added to the camp equip-
ment, paid for out of the proceeds of the Mardi Gras
entertainment. Another year it would be well to
increase the number of bunks, mattresses, blankets,
etc., to meet the growing demand for accommodations.
Mr. Brown was in charge, assisted by four leaders.

The financial statement of the boy's camp is as
follows: —

Transportation $300 64

Food 314 41

Equipment 37 94

Service 96 00

Medicines 1 00

Laundry 2 08

. , . . ^^^^

Total receipts 389 76

Cost of the boys' camp to Denison House .... 362 22

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THE FOLK HANDICRAFTS DEPARTMENT

Six years ago this department of Denison House was
organized under the name of the Italian Crafts. Its
aim was to assist and advise workers from foreign
lands in the use of their racial crafts, and to secure a
market for their handicraft.

For six years, Thursday afternoons have been set
apart for the Italian women to bring in their finished
work and receive new work. Many of the original
workers are still with us; for example, there is Santa,
who brings her filet crocheted table cover or runner,
neatly folded in a fair white cloth, to the judges, and
watches with eager eyes while the piece is inspected
for errors in copying the designs. She knows that all
poor work must be corrected, but it is only just to say
that very seldom is a piece returned for correction.
When the work is approved, ^ 'La cartina gialla^* is
marked 0. K., and Santa takes it to the cashier and
receives pay for the time spent. She then goes to
the table where new work is given out, and receives
linen, thread, and design for, let us say, a luncheon
set. She does not forget to take her duplicate yellow
slip, recording the description of the work to be done
and the sum to be paid her. Then her piece of crochet
is placed in the pile of incoming work ready for the
sterilizer — a precaution we take before offering any
article for sale.

Wednesday afternoons the Syrian and Greek women
come in the same way. Every morning, except Satur-

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ITALY IN BOSTON
By this ancient method we spun twenty pounds of flax last year

days, between nine and ten o'clock, the women may-
come for special help. Very interesting groups gather
at this time. There may be a Syrian woman returning
a finished order, a Greek woman with samples of her
work, that we may see what she can do, and give her
work to take home. An Armenian will come with a
a marvellous embroidery of the Holy Family, an Italian
with her crocheted runner, unlike any work of the kind
seen elsewhere. The enthusiastic exclamations of the
judges bring the whole group around the table. Ad-
miration is spontaneous, and admiration for the work
naturally engenders admiration for the worker . We all
grow to think less of racial and national distinction.
The Mediterranean countries seem very near indeed.
A new patriotism comes to us. More and more, we
say, * * My country is the world, my countrymen are all
mankind."

We are frequently asked how we get our workers.
We do not get them; they come to us from all over
the city and from nearby towns. Sometimes a woman
brings her next-door neighbor, and offers to teach her
friend if we will only give her work.

They come to us for many different reasons. The
husband may be sick or out of a job. Perhaps the hus-
band has a good salary, but the wife may have no
money that she can call her own. It may not be money
that she needs, but friends who will relieve her loneli-
ness in a strange land; or she may be in a nervous con-
dition that will be cured by doing beautiful work that
will be well praised and paid for.

This little incident will, no doubt, be interesting for
'^'^ Americans " to hear. Last October we invited our
workers to march with us in the Suffrage parade. No
one was urged to do so, and we viere surprised, when
the parade was formed, to find that Denison House
occupied two lines. We did not know how to march,

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and our lines disappeared when we turned a corner.
Bat the corner once turned, we held together and
marched over the whole route. Women from Lebanon,
Sicily, Tripoli, Damascus, Albania, and Germany-
marched with the Americans."

We have kept our workers busy right through the
summer, because it seemed fair to give them more work
when warm days enabled them to work outside the
dark tenements. Our material growth is shown by
the following statements: —

1912-13
Number of workers 39
Wages paid $1,245

1913-14 1914-15 1915-16

98 147 249

$3,096 $6,135 $10,496

In closing, let us say that these later pilgrims to
America come to us in no less heroic mood than the
pilgrims who landed in 1620, and that the lines in
Katherine Lee Bates' noMe national hymn, ''America
the Beautiful," might justly have been dedicated to
them: —

O beautiful for pilgrim feet,

Whose stern, impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat

Across the wilderness!

America! America!

God mend thine every flaw.
Confirm thy soul in self-control

Thy liberty in law !

Volunteer Work

The Department of Folk Handicrafts has from its
start drawn to it many volunteer workers, and to the

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work which these friends have given, and also to the
interest which they have shown, is due in no small
measure the growth of this department. Many of the
tasks given them to do have been dull cleri al ones,
whi^h in themselves could not have held their interest
had they not realized that these tasks were only a
necessary part toward the accomplishment of a vital
purpose. Many of the workers have given us work for
which they were peculiarly fitted, and of whii h we
were very much in need; in fac t, it seemed as though
for every need some one could be called upon who, from
experience or by nature, was the ideal person for that
need.

For about a year it has been the custom for each
volunteer to record the time given, and also the kind of
work done. As this list seemed to be assuming rather
large proportions, it occurred to us to see, as a matter
of curiosity, just how muth time had been given us.
In going over these lists we found it amounted to 1,240
hours from November 1, 1915, to August 1, 1916. As
we knew that a great deal of the work had not been
recorded at all, we think it fair to add to these figures
620 hours, making in all 1,860 hours for nine months.
In figuring this time at $1.50 per day (some of it was
worth very much more, and the value of some cannot
be shown in dollars and cents) we discovered that we
had received the equivalent of a gift of $465 for a year,
to say nothing of the pleasant and helpful associations
experienced on our part. We hope, on their part, the
volunteers received in return a fuller realization of the
work the Settlement house is endeavoring to do. In
many cases, where it was the first experience in that
sort of work, a permanent and sometimes active interest
in the welfare of the less fortunate has been formed by
the volunteer. So, from both standpoints, the work of
the volunteer is decidedly worth while.

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THE TREASURER'S REPORT

Cash Receipts for the Fiscal Year Ending October 1, 1916

Receipts :

Cash on hand, October 1, 1915

$326

40

Donations for General Expenses

5,396

34

College Settlement Association

1,200

CO

Special Donations, Summer Work ....

433

30

Special Donations, Boys' Work

525

00

Special Donations, Italian Fund

519

89

Special Donations, Folk Handicrafts Salary-

366

00

Special Donations, Cateba Fund

60

00

Special Donations, Christmas

125

00

Special Donations, Remodelling

9,165

60

Special Donations for Specific Purposes

610

00

Special Donations, and Receipts from Neighborhood

Hygiene Department

735

65

Legacy, Polly R. Hollingsworth

500

00

House and Club Dues

46

02

Sale of Books, Stamps, etc. . . . .

37

74

Telephone Tolls

45

09

Interest on Deposits

42

85

Italian Fund, Renting Costumes

5

00

Fete at Waltham (net)

1,473

03

Residents' Board

4,374

50

$25,876

21

Cash Payments for the Fiscal Year Ending October 1, 1916

Payments : —

Salaries $6,466 50

Repairs 705 76

Light and Fuel 778 64

Janitor 860 00

Water Tax 87 66

Payment on Mortgage Note 1,460 00

Mortgage Interest 600 61

Telephone 223 87

Christmas . . . • 160 24

Summer Work 762 61

• • 82

Recreation . $117 50

Postage, Printing, OflSce Supplies and Clerical Work 1,281 90

Italian Department 1,009 09

Class Work 80 49

Neighborhood Hygiene Department .... 310 13

House Expenses 4,036 97

House Furnishings 63 43

Sundry Expenses 89 21

Relief 62 36

Insurance 45 31

Cateba Fund Payments 49 50

Payment of Loan to Gymnasium Fund . . . 3,855 54

Cash on hand, October 1, 1916 2,789 99

$25,876 21

The Gymnasium Fund
Receipts and Disbursements for Year Ending October 1, 1916

Cash on hand, October 1, 1915 $5,024 31

Interest : —

$1,000, Miss. River Power Co., 6% . . $50 00
$2,000, Brooklyn Rapid Trans., 5% . . 100 00
$1,000, West End St. Ky., 5% ... 50 00

Interest on deposits . . . . 7 23

Denison House repayment of loan . . 3,855 54

4,062 77

$9,087 08

Purchase of: —

$1,000, Miss. River Power Co., b% . . $781 25
Accrued int. Miss. River Power Co , 5% 18 89

$2,000, Brooklyn Rapid Trans., 5% . . 2,017 50
Accrued int. Brooklyn Rapid Trans., 5% 39 72

$1,000, West End St. Ry., 5% . . . 1,012 50
Accrued int. West End St. Ry., 5% . 15 69

Account Book 1 25

3,886 80

Cash balance, October 1, 1916 $5,200 28

Gymnasium Fund Consists of: —

$1,000, Miss. River Power Co., 5% , $781 25

$2,000, Brooklyn Rapid Trans., 5% . . 2,017 50

$1,000. West End St. Ry., 5% . . 1,012 50

Cash in bank 5,200 28

' $9,011 63

as

Tho New Building Fund

Receipts and Disbursements on Account of Income for the Year
Ending October 1, 1916

Receipts : —

Cash on baud, October 1, 1915 $439 21

Interest on deposits 6 11

Interest on Investments . . .... 325 00

$770 32

Payments: —

Accrued interest on investments . . . $84 03
Interest on mortgage notes .... 525 00
Repairs to 97 Tyler Street .... 66 79

Insurance 6 44

682 26

Balance income on hand, October 1, 1916 . . $88 06

Investments as of October 1, 1916: —

Equity .and alterations of 80 Tyler Street . . . $8,712 39

Equity and alterations of 97 Tyler Street . . . 3,047 98

$1,000, New England Power Co., 5% .... 985 00

$1,000, United Elec. Sec. Co., 5% .... 1,000 00

$1,000, Am. Agr. Chem. Conv., 5% .... 976 25

$1,000, West End St. Ry., 5% 1,012 60

$1,000 Lackawanna Steel 1st Conv., 5% . . . 998 75

Brookline Trust Co., 4% 7,000 00

Cash balance, October 1, 1916 71 40

$23,804 27

D. Blakely Hoar, Treasurer.

Boston, Mass., December, 1916.
I have examined the accounts of the Treasui'er of
Denison House for the year ending October 1, 1916,
and find them correct, with vouchers for all payments
made.

The cash accounts agree with the bank balance.
I have examined the securities and find them in
order.

Henry ' W. Btiss.

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CONTRIBUTORS TO DENISON HOUSE

Abbe, Miss Elizabeth F.
Achoru, Mrs. Edgar O.
Adama, Mro. Charles R.
Adams, Edward B.
Agassiz, Mrs. G. R.
Alford, Mrs. D. H.
Alford, Miss Martha A.
Allbright, Miss Susan B.
Allen, Miss Annie E.
Allen, C. L.
Allen, Henry H.
Allen, Mrs. Philip R.
Ames, Miss Fanny B.
Ames, Mrs. Hobart
Ames, Miss M. S.
Ames, Mrs. Oliver, 2nd
Amory, Mrs. Robert
Amsden, Franklin D.
Andrews, Miss M. T.
Andrews, Miss Sarah G.
Anthony, Mrs. Nathan
Armstrong, George R.
Austin, Mrs. Walter
Austin, Wm. H. M.
Ayer, Miss Elizabeth
Ayer, Miss Harriet
Bacon, William
Bailey, Mrs. J. L.
Baker, Mrs. Arthur T.
Balch, Miss Elizabeth
Baldwin, Mrs. James T.
Barbour, E. D.
Barrows, Miss Mary
Bartlett, A. G.
Bartlett, Miss Mary H.
Bartol, Miss Elizabeth H.
Bartol, Mrs. John W.
Basford, G. W.
Beach, Miss Mary B.
Beaman, Mrs. G. W.
Bean, Miss Martha B.
Bedinger, Miss Grace D.
Beebe, Chas. Philip
Beebe, E. Pierson
Beebe, Miss Marcia
Beech, Mrs. Herbert
Bellamy, Mrs. William
Bemis, Mrs. A. F.

Bent, Mrs. S. Ella
Benton, Mrs. Jay R.
Berry, Miss Marian Wells
Bigelow, Miss Eleanor
Bigelow, Mrs. Enos Hoyt
Bigelow, Miss Florence
Bingham, J. W.
Blake, Mrs. Arthur W.
Blake, Mrs. S. Parkman
Blaney, Miss Hannah C.
von Blomberg, Miss Eva
Boardman, Mrs. W. D.
Boit, Robert A.
Bond, Mrs. Charles H.
Borden, Miss Carrie L.
Borthwick, Miss Susan E.
Bowditch, Mrs. Ingersoll
Bowen, Miss Fanny C.
Bradlee, Mrs. Josiah
Bradlee, Miss Sarah C.
Bradley, Mrs. Mabel Warren
Brandegee, Mrs. M. B.
Brandeis, Mrs, Louis D.
Brewer, Edward M.
Brewster, Miss Caroline F,
Brewster, William
Brigham, L. P.
Brooks, Mrs. Shepherd
Brooks, Mrs. Laurence G.
Brooks, Peter C.
Brown, Miss Edith B.
Brov/n, Eliza Otis
Brown, Miss Susan F.
Brunt, Mrs. Charles van
Bullock, Mrs. Samuel J.
Burgess, Mrs. George E.
Burgess, Mrs. J. K.
Burr, Mr. and Mrs. AUston
Burr, Mrs. I. Tucker
Butler, Miss Isabel
Cabot, Mrs. Hugh
Calkins, Miss Mary W.
Campbell, Miss Clara D.
Capen, Miss M. W.
Carter, James R.
Gary, Miss Georgina S.
Chapin, Mrs. George L.
Chase, Miss Alice P.

Chase, Miss Ellen
Cheever, Miss Alice
Cheever, Dr. David
Cheever, Mrs. David W.
Cheever, Miss Helen
Childs, Miss Carolyn H.
Church (Miss Church's school)
Chute, Mrs. Arthur L.
Claflin, Miss Edith F.
Clapp, Mrs. Edwin
Clark, Mrs. John T.
Clark, Miss Mary D.
Clarke, Henry Martyn
Clifford, H. E.
Cochrane, Mrs. Alexander
Codman, Miss A. N.
Coleman, Mrs. George W.
Collar, Mrs. Wm. C.
College Settlements Asso.
Connable, Mrs. John L.
Converse, Mrs. Costello C.
Cook, Miss Ellen P.
Coolidge, Jr., Mrs. A.
Cooiidge, Miss Ellen W.
Coolidge, Miss Elsie W.
Coolidge, Mr*5. J. Randolph
Coolidge, Mrs. A. W.
Coombs, Miss Georgia S.
Cotton, Dr. F. J.
Crocker, Mrs. Jane B.
Crosby, Miss Henrietta M.
Currier, Mr. and Mrs. R. M.
Curtis, Miss Grace R.
Curtis, Miss Mabel G.
Cushman, Miss Hattie F.
Dabney, Miss Ellen
Dakin, Mrs. A. H.
Dana, Gorham

Dana Hall (C. S. A. Chapter)

Dana, Miss Mary H.

Dane, Mrs. Ernest B.

Dane, Mrs. John

Davis, Andrew McFarland

Davis, Mrs. Helen G.

Day, Miss Carrie E.

Dean, Charles A.

Deland, E. M.

Denison Students' Club

Dexter, Dr. Franklin

Dodge, Miss Esther S.

Dodge, Mrs. R. T.

Dole, Rev. Charles F. and Mrs.

Doyle, Miss Sarah E.

Draper, Miss Charlotte H.

Drury, Miss Julia C.

Dunbar, Mrs. James R.

Duncan, Mrs. Samuel W.

Durfee, Mrs. R. M.

Earle, Misses Mabel L. and

Louise S.
Edwards, John H.
Eisemann, Miss Selma W.
Ellery, William
Emerson, Mrs. E. W.
Emerson, Elliot S.
Emerson, Miss Marguerite E.
Emery, Frederick L.
Emmons, N. H.
Emmons, Mrs. R. W., 2nd
Endicott, H. B.
Estabrook, Mrs. Arthur F.
Eustis, The Misses
Eustis, Mrs. F. A.
Everts, Miss Katherine Jewell
Farley, Arthur S.
Fay, William Rodman
Ferguson, M. C.
Ferrin, M. F. B.
Field, Edward B.
Fisher, Mrs. R. T.
Fisher, Miss Sara L.
Fisher, William P.
Fiske, Miss Annette
Fiske, Mrs. J. N.
Fiske, Mrs. Sarah D.
Fitch, Miss C. T.
FitzGerald, Mrs. Stephen S.
Fitzpatrick, T. B.
Flint, Mrs. Ephraim B.
Flood, Mrs. C. H.
P^orbes, Mrs. W. E.
Forbes, Mrs. William H.
Foss, Mrs. Eugene N.
Foss, Mrs. James O.
Fredericks, Mrs. B. W.
French, Miss Edith M.
Freeman, Miss Paulina
Frothingham, Miss E. B.
Frothingham, Mrs. Langdon
Fuller, Miss Caroline W.
Pulton, Mrs. Pryor
Gay, Richard L.
Gibbs, Lyman

Gierasch, Mr. and Mrs. W. S.
Goddard, Miss Julia
Goldthwait, Mrs. Joel E.
Good ridge. Miss Elinor M.
Goodwin, Miss S. T.

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Gourgas, A. M.

Grandin, Mrs. J. Livingston
Gray, Mrs. Morris
Gray, Mrs. John Chipman
Greeley, Mrs. Rufus F.
Grew, Edward W.
Grew, Mrs. Henry S.
Griggs, Miss Harriet F.
Hall, Miss Amelia A.
Hall, Edwin H.
Hallowell, Jones & Donald
Harmon, Miss Harriet B.
Harrington, Miss Clara W.
Hartwell, H. W.
Haskell, Edward H.
Haskell, M. E.

Hatfield, Dr. and Mrs. H. K.
Hawkridge, Miss Emma L.
Hedge, Frederic H.
Hemenway, Mrs. Augustus
Hewins, Alfred S.
Higginson, Mrs. F. L.
Hill, Mrs. L. C.
Hill, Mrs. William H.
Holbrook, Miss Mary S.
Holbrook, E. Everett
Hollander, L. P. & Co.
Hood, Miss A. N.
Hooper, Mrs. James R,
Houghton, Mrs. Clement S.
Houghton, Miss Elizabeth G.
House, Miss Mary C.
Howes, F. L.

Howes, Mrs. Osborne, Jr.
Hsu, Y. C.
Hubbard, Allen
Hubbard, Charles W.
Humphrey, Miss Caroline L.
Humphrey, Seth K.
Hunnewell, Walter
Hutchinson, Miss Bertha M.
Hutchins, Mrs. C. L.
lasigi, Mrs. Oscar
Ireland, Miss Catherine Innis
Jackson, Miss Florence
Jackson, Mrs. H. D.
Jamieson, Joseph B.
Jenkins, Mrs. Thornton
Jewett, Miss Alice N.
Jones, Mrs. F. H.
Joslin, Miss Mary R.
Kaiser, Benjamin A,
Keene, Miss Clara R.
Kimball, Mrs. David P.

Kimball, Miss Martha S.
King, Mrs. Henry P.
Kittredge, Mrs. W. P.
Lamb, Miss Rose
Lane, Miss Fannie D.
Lasell, Mrs. J. M.
Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William
Lawson, Miss Maude A.
Lee, Miss Frances
Lee, Mrs. George C.
Lee, Joseph
Leland, Mrs. Lester
Leverett, George V.
Lewis, Miss Winifred
Lincoln, Miss Agnes W.
Little, Mrs. Clara B.
Lloyd, Miss M. S.
Lombard, Mrs. Percival H.
Loring, Mrs. Wm. C.
Lothrop, Mrs. Thornton K.
Lovett, Mrs. A. S.
Lovett, Mrs. Eliza R.
Lowell, Miss Lucy
Lowell, Percival
Lyman, Mrs. George H.
Lyman, Harrison P.
Lyon, Mrs. George
Mackintosh, Miss Euphemia
Mackintosh, Newton
Manning, B. S.

Margesson, Miss Helen Pearson
Marston, Miss Amy T.
Marston, Miss Helen D.
Mason, Miss Ella S.
May, Miss Eleanor G.
May, Samuel, Jr.
McElwain, Mrs. Wm. H.
McKee, Mrs. W. L.
Meech, Miss Caro F.
Memory of M. L Edsall
Memory of Eleanor B. Tileston
Memory of A. F. W., the child

comrade
Michael, A.

May (Misses May's School)

Moore, Mrs. Edward C.

Moors, Mrs. Arthur W.

Morrill, Miss Amelia

Morse, Miss Frances C.

Morse, Mrs. W. I.

Motley, Mrs. T., Jr.

Motte, Mrs. M. L

Mower, Penfield

Mt. Holyoke C. S. A. Chapter

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Munro, Miss M. H.

Munsell, Ector
Nash, Mrs. N. C.
Neilson, W. A.
Nelson, Miss Mary H.
Newhart, Miss Grace
Nichols, Miss Grace
Norton, Miss Mary Penfield
Nourse, Miss A. B.
Olmsted, John C.
Orth, John

Packard, Miss Minnie
Page, Mrs. Kate Stearns
Paine, Miss Elsie M.
Paine, Miss Ethel L.
Paine, Jamea K
Paine, Miss Jessie G.
Paine, Mrs. W. A.
Paine, William A.
Parker, Miss Eleanor V.
Parker, Miss Louise Merritt
Parlin, A. W.
Pattee, Mrs. Eleanor T.
Peabody, Charles
Peabody, Mrs. B.
Pearson, Miss Adelaide
Pennar, Mrs. Bryan S.
Perry, Mrs. A. D.
Peters, Mrs. W. Y.
Pfaelzer, Mrs. Franklin T.
Philbrick, Miss Annie B.
Phillips, Miss Sophie
Pitman, Mrs. B. F.
Pollard, Mrs. F. K.
Pope, Mrs. Albert A.
Pratt, Miss Mary
Presbrey, Miss Florence N.
Prescott, Mrs. C. J.
Proctor, Miss Martha R.
Proctor, Mrs. Thomas P.
Purdon, Mrs. James
Putnam, Miss A. C.
Putnam, Mrs. W. L.
Rand, Miss Margaret
Ratchesky, Mrs. I. A,
Raymond, Mrs. H. E.
Redfield, Miss Eliza W.
Reed, Miss Emily S.
Reed, Miss Ida B.
Reed, Mrs. J. H.
Reed, Mrs. Sarah A.
Reed, Mrs. William Howell
Remick, Mrs. F. W.
Reynolds, Miss Ann Foster

Reynolds, Miss A. T.
Rice, Mrs. A. B.
Rice, Mrs. David
Richardson, Mrs. F. L. W.
Richardson, Charles O.
Richardson, Mrs. John, Jr.
Richardson, Mrs. John
Riley, Charles B.
Riley, William J.
Ripley, Ebed L.
Rivinius, F. C.
Roberts, Miss Ethel Dane
Robertson, Miss Alice I.
Robinson, Mrs. F. N.
Robinson, Roswell R.
Rob son, John W.
Rochester, Mrs. R. H.
Rousmaniere, Dean Edmund S.
Russell, Frank A.
Russell, Miss Kate S.
Russell, Mrs. Robert S.
Saltonstall, Philip L.
Sanderson, George A.
Sargent, Dr., D. A.
Sargent, Mrs. F. W.
Saville, Mrs. Henry M.
Sawyer, Alfred H.
Sayles, Mrs. Robert W.
Scheinfeldt, S.
Schlesinger, Mrs. Barthold
Scott, Mrs. H. R.
Scripture, Miss Bertha
Sears, Mrs. George G.
Sears Horace 3.
Selfridge, Mrs. G. S.
Shaw, Mrs. Emily M.
Shaw, Mrs. G. H.
Shaw, Mrs. Quincy
Shepard, Miss Emily B.
Shepard, T. H.
Short, Miss Fanny L.
Shurtleff, Asabel M.
Simes, Mrs. William
Simmons, Miss Elizabeth R.
Simpkins, Miss Mary W.
Sise, Dr. Lincoln F.
Slattery, Daniel G.
Slocum, William H.
Smith, Miss Emma J.
Smith, Mrs. George
Smith, Miss Marion B.
Smith, Mrs. Joseph N.
Spaulding, John T.
Spaulding, William S.

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Spinney, Miss Helen A.
Sprague, Mrs. Henry B.
Sprague, Mrs. G. S.
Sprague, Mrs. Phineas W.
Sprague, Mrs. S. E.
Spring, Chester C.
Stackpole, Miss Roxana
Stearns, Mrs. F. W.
Stedman, Henry R.
Stevens, Miss Mary Louisa
Stockwell, Miss M. Louise
Stone, Miss Elizabeth
Storey, Moorfield
Stowell, Miss Susan L.
Streeter, Mrs. A. C.
Streeter, F. V.
Suter, Mrs. Charles R.
Sweetser, Mrs. P. E.
Tappan, Miss Mary A.
Tapley, Miss Alice P.
Taussig, F. W.
Taylor, Miss Amy E.
Taylor, Miss Margaret
Thacher, Miss Elizabeth B.
Thayer, A. H.
Thayer, Mrs. Ezra Ripley
Thayer, Mrs. Lucius H.
Thayer, Miss Essie C.
Thayer, Mrs. John E., Jr.
Thayer, Miss Josephine
Thayer, Miss Mary V.
Thayer, Mrs. Nathaniel
Thompson, Mrs. N. P.
Thompson, Sanford E.
Thompson, William G.
Thorndike, Mrs. Albert
Thorndike, Mrs. Augustus
Thorp, Mrs. J. G.
Tilden, Miss Edith S.
Tileston, Mrs. J. B.
Tillinghast, Jos. J.
Tilton, Miss Annie Eugenie
Todd, Miss Alice Adele
Tower, Mrs. Richard G.
Trinity Church

(Alexander Mann, Rector)
Trull, Mrs. W. B.

Tuttle, Mrs. George T.
Tuttle, Dr. George T.
Tyler, Miss Emily W.
Tyler, Harry W.
Upham, Miss Susan
United Shoe Machinery Co.
Vaughan, Miss Bertha H.
Vaughan, Samuel
Vialle, Chas. A.
Walker, Mrs. William H.
Wallace, M. R.

Walnut Hill School (C. S. A.

Chapter)
Ware, Miss Harriet
Warren, Miss Cornelia
Washburn, Miss Henrietta L.
Wason, Leonard C.
Welch, Mrs. F. W.
Wentworth, Mrs. Charles F.
Wentworth, E. Marion
Wesselhoeft, Mrs. W. F.
Wharton, William P.
Wheeler, Mrs. W. M.
Wheeler, Miss Margrette
Wheeler, T. B.
White, Charles T.
White, Miss Grace G., and sister
White, Miss Lizzie D.
Whitin, Mrs. G. M.
Whiting, Miss Anna M.
Whiting, Mrs. G. G.
Whitten, Mrs. G. R.
Wigglesworth, George
Wilbor, Miss Elizabeth G.
Williams, David W.
Williams, John D.
Williams, Mrs. J.
Williamson, Miss Clara R.
Wilson, T. K.
Winslow, Arthur
Winthrop, Mrs. Robert C.
Wiss, Mrs. Margarethe
Wiswall, Miss C. Carlotta
Worcester, William L.
Wrenn, Mrs. P. W.
Wyman, Mrs. H. A.
Yerxa, Miss Sarah

CONTRIBUTORS TO THE REnODELLINQ FUND

Alford, Mrs. O. H.

Alford, Miss Martha A.
Anonymous, through R. H.

Gardiner
Brooks, Gorham
Burr, AUston
Burr, I. Tucker
Cheever, Miss Helen
Clark, James R
Clark, Miss Mildred
Curtis, Miss Mabel G.
Dane, Mrs. Ernest
Dodd, Miss Mary-
Eaton, Mrs. Loomis F.
Elms, B. B.
mVot, Mrs. John W.
Ellison, B. H.
Eistabrook, Arthur F.
Fuller, H. F.
Gardiner, Robert H.
Gibbs, Miss Louise
Goldthwait, Mrs. Joel
Gordon, Miss Geraldine
Holbrook, Miss Mary T.'
Houghton, Miss Elizabeth G.
Humphrey, Miss Caroline L.
Lee, Eliot C.
Lee, George C.

Lee, Mrs. George
Leland, Edmund F.
Manning, Miss A. F.
Monks, Mrs. G. H.
Paine, Miss Sarah C.
Page, Mrs. Kate Stearns
Paul, Miss A. M.
Perry, Mrs. Arthur
Reed, Miss Emily S.
Reed, Miss Ida B.
Reed, Mrs. H. R.
Saltonstall, Mrs. R. M.
Scripture, Miss Bertha
Scudder, Miss Vida D.
Shapleigh, Miss Amelia
Sprague, Dr. F. P.
Stewart, Mrs. Cecil
Stone, C. A.
Storrow, Mrs. J. J.
Thayer, Mrs. L. H.
Thorp, Mrs. J. G.
Tucker, F. H.
Tuttle. Mrs. George T.
Walker, Miss Adeline P.
Walker, Mrs. D. Harold
Walker, Mr. and Mrs, W. H.
Warren, Miss Cornelia
Webster, Mrs. R. G. T.

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CONTRIBUTORS TO THE ITALIAN FUND

Allen, Winthrop B.
Amory, Miss Susan C.
Austin, Mrs. Walter
Bacon, Miss Ellen S.
Barr, Miss Laura M.
Bigelcw, Miss Eleanor
Blake, Mrs. Arthur W.
Boardman, Mrs. W. D.
Bonzagni, Mrs, Augustus C.
Brewster, Mrs. William
Brown, T. Hassall
Bullard, Mrs. W. N.
Bullock, Mrs. Samuel J.
Gary, Miss Georgina S.
Chandler, Mrs. F. W.
Channing, Miss Eva
Cheever, Miss Helen
Child, Mrs. E. H.
Gumming, Mrs. Charles A.
Cunningham, Mrs. Frederick
Dabney, Miss Ellen
Davis, Mrs. Joseph E.
Dwight, Miss Marion McG.
Fuller, Miss Anna
Gardiner, Mrs. R. H.
Gray, Mrs. John C.

Higginson, Mrs. Henry L.
Hollingsworth, Mrs. George
Lothrop, Miss Mary B.
Lowell, Mrs. A. Lawrence
Mason, Miss Ellen F.
Mason, Miss Ida M.
Mason, Mrs. C. E.
McArthur, Mrs. J. A.
Merriman, Mrs. D.
Moore, Frances C.
Motley, Jr., Mrs.
Page, Mrs. Kate Stearns
Raymond, Mrs. H. E.
Ross, Mrs. M. Denman
Scudder, Miss Vida D.
Scull, Mrs. Gideon
Sears, Miss Anne L.
Shattuck, Miss Maude A.
Stearns, Miss Elizabeth S.
Sullivan, Mrs. J. Russell
Tapley, Miss Alice P.
Thacher, Miss Margaret W.
Thayer, Mrs. Lucius H.
Tuttle, Mrs. George T.
Wadsv/orth, Mrs. A. F.

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NON= RESIDENT WORKERS

Ayer, Miss Elizabeth, 518 Beacon Street

Ayer, Miss Buena, Wellesley College

Ayer, Miss Helen, 120 Cambridge Street, Winchester

Agnew, Miss Margaret A., 146 Massachusetts Avenue

Alcock, Miss Virginia, Wellesley College

Ames, Miss Olivia, 15 Commonwealth Avenue

Adams, Miss Amy, 218 Bast Foster Street, Melrose

Benjamin, Miss Ruth Avery, 991 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge

Barber, Miss Genevieve, 10 Sacramento Street, Cambridge

Beebe, Miss Marcia

Bennett, Miss Marion, 19 Agassiz Street, Cambridge

Birdsall, Miss, Radcliffe College

Brown, Mr. M. E., Montecello, Mass,

Blake, Miss Dorothea, 1173 Commonwealth Avenue

Bullard, Miss Helen, 47 Commonwealth Avenue

Borthwick, Miss Susan, 103 Hemenway Street

Burdette, Miss Carolyn, Harvard Avenue, Brookline

Baldwin, Miss Millicent, Wellesley College

Burke, Miss Phyllis, Wellesley College

Branch, Miss Leonora, 75 Pinckney Street, Boston

Barber, Miss Pauline, 10 Sacremento Street, Cambridge

Coit, Miss, Radcliffe College

Cronan, Mr. and Mrs. John J., 11 Washington Street, Dorchester

De Witt, Miss Frances, Wellesley College

Druley, Miss Bertha, 74 Pinckney Street

Dodsworth, Miss Susan, 25 Cortez Street

Dwight, Miss Elizabeth, 225 Beacon Street

Faulkner, Miss Miriam, 102 Fenway, Stuart Club

Fitts, Miss Adele, Wellesley College

Flagg, Miss Harriet, Wellesley College

Fairbanks, Mr. Charles W., 200 High Street, Boston

Ferguson, Mr. John H., Charlesgate West, Boston

Farman, Miss E. M., 20 Trowbridge Street. Cambridge

Fultz, Miss Helen, 9 Oxford Street, Winchester

Gardner, Miss Maude, Wellesley College

Gifford, Miss Helen, 66 Pinckney Street

Glover, Miss Florence, Stone Hall, Wellesley College

Goldthwait, Mrs. J. E., 1 Charles River Square

Graham, Miss C. S., Charlesgate, West

Hill, Miss, Wellesley College

Harris, Miss Leola, Wellesley College

Hitchcock, Miss, Wellesley College

Hewins, Miss Anna, West Roxbury

Hanlon, Miss Margaret, Somerville, Mass.

Hicks, Miss Madeline, Wellesley College

Henry, Mr. James E.. 126 Westmorly Court, Cambridge

.Tewett, Miss Lucy, Wellesley College

Katiba, Mr., Divinity Hall, Cambridge

Kenny, Mr. Robert, Willow Street, Boston

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Locke, Miss Olive, Lexington, Mass.

Loomis, Mrs., Hotel Kerapton

Lovett, Miss Gertrude, 7 Fairfield Street

Lafferty, Mr. J. Leroy, 51 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Mills, Miss Alice, 38 W. Cedar Street

Malgieri, Mr. Francisco, 99 Cottage Street, Blast Boston

Maguire, Mr. John M., 16 Central Street

MacPherson, Mr. Kenneth W., Watertown, Mass.

Mann, Mr. Henry L., 104 Chestnut Street, Boston

Mantz, Miss Anna, Shafer Hall, Wellesley College

Marion, Miss Eva P., 1080 Beacon Street

Miner, Miss Dorothy, Hyde Park

Merriam, Miss Mary L., 4 Humboldt Street, Cambridge

Marr, Miss, care Miss Mary Holbrook, 392 Commonwealth Avenu*

O'Meara, Miss L., 585 Beacon Street

Paxton, Miss Jay, 27 St. Stephen Street

Parker, Miss Marjorie, 39 Hillside Avenue, Maiden

Parsons, Miss Susan L., 223 Beacon Street

Parsons, Miss Martha, Tower Court, Wellesley College

Pearson, Miss Adelaide, 350 Tappan Street, Brookline

Pfaelzer, Mrs. F<. F., 202 Beacon Street

Philadelphus, Miss Galene, Y. W. C. A.

Potter, Miss Marjorie, 56 Cummings Road, Brookline

Potter, Miss Rosamond, 56 Cummings Road, Brookline t ^

Percy, Dr. Karlton, 259 Beacon Street

Rinehart, Mr.' S. M., J. Smith Hall, A 31, Cambridge

Rhodes, Mr. J. F., 16 Prescott Street, Cambridge — ■

Reggio, Dr. W. A., 40 Fairfield Street

Revere, Miss Susan, Canton, Mass,

Ring, Miss Priscilla Allison, 103 Greenleaf Street, Quincy

Rowell, Miss Ella G., 61 Sewall Avenue, Brookline

Ryan, Miss Helen Spencer, 875 Huntington Avenue, Boston

Sargent, Miss, 12 Sacramento Street, Cambridge

Stone, Miss Elizabeth, Brush Hill Road, Milton

Stoddard, Miss Margaret, 197 Beacon Street

Stoddard, Miss Yvonne, 197 Beacon Street

Stanley, Miss Kara, Wellesley College

Sweeney, Miss Claire, Radcliffe College

Skinner, Miss Kathleen, Wellesley College

Seaman, Miss Helen, Wellesley College

Stearns, Miss Elsie R,, 354 Chestnut Hill Avenue, Brookline

Talbot, Miss Augusta, 125 Lincoln Avenue, Wollaston

Taylor, Miss Doris, Hotel Copley Plaza.

Tison, Mr. Paul, 27 Holyoke Street, Cambrid^^-e

Wallace, Miss Lillian, Wellesley College

Washburn, Miss Lucille, 266 Pine Street, Lowell, Mass.

Welliver, Miss Dorothy, 102 Fenway, Stuart Club

Wheeler, Miss Priscilla. Concord, Mass.

Wiley, Miss Marion, Pomeroy Hall, Wellesley College

Wilson, Miss Margaret, Pomeroy Hall, Wellesley College

Whitney, Mrs., Hotel Kempton

Whit, Mr. Edwin, 51 Oxford Street, Cambridge

Wilson, Mr. Harold, Wellington Hall, Mattapan.

Winchester, Miss Rosalind, 102 Fenway, Stuart Club

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ACKNOWLEDQMENTS

We wish to make acknowledgment also of the
generous help of many friends who have sent us cloth-
ing, flowers, fruit, games, books, dolls, etc.; and to
the Hemenway for the privilege of using their large
basement room for rehearsals.

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NISON HOUSE

1 hereby give, devise and bequeath the sun. of
Dollars (in case of a gift other than money)
state the article or piece^cf property intended to he given,
to Denison House, incorporated under the laws of Massa
chusetts, its successors and assigns absolii